I have my central city on a big tile. 650,000 people, $40,000 average salary, mayor rating maxed, education and health polls maxed. What is the problem? No demand for anything, low wealth residential ...

Can I build all industrial zones in one city and then put all my residential and commerce zones in another city? Would this still provide jobs for my sims or do I have to build all three zones in the ...

I read everywhere that I can set launch options to have a better screen resolution with SimCity 4. For example:
-CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32
The thing is that it is possible in Steam to ...

What do you have to do to get 1 million people in a region (and is it even possible)?
My cities seem to stop growing when reaching 100k people. After I reach this number of people, all my buildings ...

I want to develop city with only mid-wealth population, little R$ and with jobs I-M industry and Co§§. Can anyone explain to me what R$$ wants? What is their demand? I'm trying to find it, but I need ...

I was wondering if mountains, slopes, valleys, lakes and seas have any advantages or benefits in Simcity 4. If I remember it correctly, waterpumps in Simcity 2000 had to be close to a lake or a river. ...

It it possible, or is there a mod, that allows you to hide zoned buildings only. This used to be a an option in Simcity 3000, which was great for adding/finding subways, busstops and other government ...

Playing SimCity 4 with a tiny experimental city today, I noticed something interesting.
Say I have a residential area that looks like this:
interior 6 blocks high, 10 blocks wide
each housing lot is ...

Whenever I build something (like roads) right near the edges of the map, the landscape is modified to a configuration that doesn't match the neighboring side. SimCity asks to reconcile edges, but the ...

I had SimCity 4 Deluxe installed and running on Windows 7 64-bit without any major issues for a few months. As far as I can remember, I do not think I even had to adjust compatibility mode, or tweak ...

My city is 1500 years old. It has 1.8 million citizen, 800k businesses and a small industry (around 9k). It's a thriving town running on a $4.5 million yearly budget. It's pretty developed; the crime ...

In what was undoubtedly an act of poor judgement, I recently elected reinstalled Sim City 4. Now that my addiction is in full force, I'm wondering if there's an optimal placement for water pumps in ...

I've noticed that scaring off dirty industry with high taxes does not appear to have any negative impact on my city's growth or economy.
Ideally, I would only have high-tech in my city, so that I may ...

In SimCity 4, I'm trying to set up a large city with lots of farmland. I've read on several sites (and experienced first-hand) that at a certain growth level demand for agriculture drops entirely, but ...

I have a mainly commercial city which currently supplies its own water and power. I would like to outsource it to a neighbouring city. However, this would cost $2k/mo more than generating it in the ...

SimCity 4 is a great game, but I usually start getting problems when my cities reach a population of ~50k people. One of the major problems is traffic.
What are techniques/solutions to this problem? ...

I used to love playing SimCity 3000 and was wondering recently what new versions have come out since then. I found SimCity 4 which sounds pretty cool.
I switched to an Intel based MacBook Pro half a ...

I have two cities. 1st is the main. 2nd is for garbage export. It was not difficult to start garbage exporting. I just created road connection and placed garbage processing plant in the 2nd and a 2x2 ...

Is there a way to transfer your train system from being elevated to going along the ground in SimCity 4 - Deluxe Edition? There is a tile which lets you transfer from elevated to underground, but I ...